Huisartsenpost OZL

What Huisartsenpost OZL does

Huisartsenpost OZL, legally Huisartsen Spoedpost Oostelijk Zuid-Limburg, is a regional after-hours general practitioner (GP) emergency service headquartered at Henri Dunantstraat 5, 6419 PC Heerlen, in the Eastern South Limburg region of the Netherlands. The organization operates a single walk-in facility providing urgent primary medical care outside regular GP practice hours: weekday evenings from 17:00 to 08:00 and 24 hours on Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays. Patients enter the service via referrals from affiliated local GP practices when their own practice is closed, with life-threatening cases routed to emergency services via 112.

The product offering is a single regional after-hours urgent GP service, with the website functioning primarily as a patient-information and triage-support portal covering ten common complaints (tick bites, flu, sore throat, cough, diarrhea, insect bites, pediatric fever, abdominal pain, hay fever, bladder infection). Auxiliary functions include a client council (Cliëntenraad), digital compliment and complaint forms, a recruitment and education/internship pipeline, and a bilingual Dutch/English interface. No proprietary platform, app, or technology stack is disclosed; the digital estate appears to be a standard CMS implementation.

Revenue is sourced from the Dutch healthcare insurance and regional primary-care funding system rather than direct patient billing, operating as a managed-services public healthcare utility rather than a commercial venture. The organization functions as part of a cooperative-style referral network of affiliated GP practices; ownership structure is not disclosed, and no parent, private equity, or venture capital involvement is signaled. With only 7 reported employees (likely core administrative/triage staff given the cooperative model), the entity operates at small-scale, regional scope.

Name

Huisartsenpost OZL

Legal name

Huisartsen Spoedpost Oostelijk Zuid-Limburg

Website

https://huisartsenpost-ozl.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Huisartsenpost OZL is a regional after-hours GP emergency service in Heerlen, Netherlands, providing walk-in urgent primary care to residents of Eastern South Limburg during evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays, funded through the Dutch healthcare insurance system and operating via referrals from affiliated GP practices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

After-Hours Emergency GP Services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Offices of Physicians (62111)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

After-Hours & Walk-In Primary Care Clinics (HLAFADAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Retail & Walk-In Primary Care Clinics (HLAFAGAC)

Keywords

• After-hours GP care
• Urgent primary care
• Emergency GP services
• Out-of-hours healthcare
• Regional GP post

Headquarters

HQ city

Heerlen

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Healthcare Services: Provides after-hours emergency GP services funded through the Dutch healthcare insurance system. Patients are referred through the regular healthcare system when their own GP practice is closed.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Huisartsen Spoedpost OZL operates as a regional after-hours general practitioner emergency post serving patients of affiliated GP practices in Eastern South Limburg, Netherlands. The facility provides walk-in urgent GP care on weekday evenings from 17:00 to 08:00 and 24-hour coverage on weekends and national holidays. The service is accessed via referrals from affiliated GP practices when their regular offices are closed, and patients can self-present for non-life-threatening conditions; life-threatening cases are redirected to 112 emergency services.

Product overview

Huisartsen Spoedpost OZL is a single-service healthcare offering providing after-hours urgent GP (huisarts) care for the Eastern South Limburg region. The service operates evenings, nights, weekends, and national holidays, serving patients who need urgent medical attention when regular GP practices are closed. The organization coordinates with affiliated local GP practices and provides patient information, health guidance for common complaints, and complaint handling through integrated digital forms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Aangesloten praktijken (Affiliated GP Practices)coreOthersNetwork of affiliated GP practices throughout Eastern South Limburg that refer patients to the after-hours emergency GP service when their practices are closed. This partnership forms the core operational model of the organization.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ärztlicher Bereitschaftsdienst (Germany): Germany's national out-of-hours GP service reachable via 116117; the cross-border benchmark for after-hours primary care models similar to Dutch huisartsenposten.
• Zuyderland (Heerlen/Sittard-Geleen hospitals): Regional hospital operator co-located with Huisartsenpost OZL's Heerlen site; provides the downstream ED capacity that the post escalates life-threatening cases to via 112.
• NHS 111 / Out-of-Hours GP Services (UK): UK national out-of-hours urgent primary care service; functionally comparable to Dutch huisartsenposten for non-life-threatening but same-day needs, though operating at national scale.

Direct peers

• Doktersdienst Groningen: Regional after-hours GP emergency service in Groningen, comparable in scale, operating model, and role within the Dutch primary care out-of-hours network.
• Huisartsenposten Amsterdam: Amsterdam's after-hours GP emergency posts, applying the same Dutch huisartsenpost model at urban scale and serving affiliated GP practices in the metropolitan area.
• Huisartsenpost West-Brabant: Regional after-hours GP emergency post for West-Brabant with the same walk-in, 17:00-08:00 + weekend/holiday operating model and affiliated-practice referral structure.
• Huisartsenpost Oostelijk Zuid-Limburg (self-reference): This is the subject company itself; included as a reference anchor for the direct-peer comparison set of Dutch regional after-hours GP posts.
• Huisartsenpost Maastricht: Adjacent after-hours GP service in the Maastricht region, employing the same huisartsenpost construct with hours closely matching Huisartsenpost OZL.
• Centrale Huisartsenpost Eindhoven: Central after-hours GP post for the Eindhoven region; comparable service design, affiliated-practice network, and managed-services revenue model.
• SHDA (Stichting Huisartsendienstenstructuur Amsterdam): Amsterdam-area foundation operating after-hours GP services; shares the cooperative/foundation ownership and managed-services structure typical of Dutch huisartsenposten.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/huisartsenpost-ozl

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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